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SSH Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic) (Doc ID 2490591.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 25, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Keys generated using Puttygen in .ppk format will result in following error when tried with -i option ssh commandline: 

[opc@<HOST> ~]$ ssh -i deployment_key.txt opc@<IP_ADDRESS>
Enter passphrase for key 'deployment_key.txt':
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).
[opc@<HOST> ~]$

Changes

 SSH keys are generated from Puttygen. ssh command doesn't recognize the PuTTY private key format.

Cause

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